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  "name":"SB 3.11.24",
  "h1":"SB 3.11.24",
  "label":"Text 24",
  "title":"Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.11.24",
  "description":"Each and every Manu enjoys a life of a little more than seventy-one sets of four millenniums."

} —

SB 3.11.24

स्वं स्वं कालं मनुर्भुङ्क्ते साधिकां ह्येकसप्तति ॥२४॥

Text

svaṁ svaṁ kālaṁ manur bhuṅkte
sādhikāṁ hy eka-saptatim

Synonyms

svam—own; svam—accordingly; kālam—duration of life; manuḥ—Manu; bhuṅkte—enjoys; sa-adhikām—a little more than; hi—certainly; eka-saptatim—seventy-one.

Translation

Each and every Manu enjoys a life of a little more than seventy-one sets of four millenniums.

Purport

The duration of life of a Manu comprises seventy-one sets of four millenniums, as described in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa. The duration of life of one Manu is about 852,000 years in the calculation of the demigods, or, in the calculation of human beings, 306,720,000 years.